London’s leading multidisciplinary university with 10,000 staff and 29,000 students. Our university is a modern, outward-looking institution, committed to engaging with the major issues of our times. One of the world’s leading multidisciplinary universities, UCL today is a true academic powerhouse.

UCL is among the world’s top universities, as reflected in performance in a range of rankings and tables.

We have a global reach and global vision. Almost two-thirds of our student body come from outside the UK, attracted from 150 countries around the globe.

UCL was founded in 1826 to open up university education in England to those who had been excluded from it. In 1878, it became the first university in England to admit women students on equal terms with men.